YUI and Google Most everyone knows that Google has really stepped up to the plate by helping many JavaScript library projects host their builds on the Google AJAX Libraries API. Apart from providing a central distribution point for these libraries, the bandwidth cost savings alone go a long way in helping frameworks service their users Read the rest…

< View plain text > javascript $(window).load(function() { $("#example").liquidCanvas( "[shadow border gradient] => roundedRect{radius:50}"); }); This is an example of Liquid Canvas, a new library from Steffen Rusitschka who created ShadedBorder and RUZEE.Borders. Liquid Canvas is a JavaScript library which allows you to draw inside an HTML canvas element with an easy Read the rest…

Stephane Caron wrote it with quite a nice little lightbox knock-off based on jQuery. prettyPhoto, as its called, as a few different options and an easy syntax: Add rel=”prettyPhoto” to any picture you want to activate the prettyPhoto feature: < View plain text > HTML &lt;a href="images/fullscreen/1.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto" title="Description"&gt; &lt;img src="/images1.jpg" alt="Picture 1 title" /&gt; Read the rest…

Several months ago, we covered jsTree, a promising new tree component built on top of jQuery. It’s since gained its own website and is nearing a 1.0 release. There have been a few changes since we last wrote about it: * A lot of focus on the JSON data source * Native async support (meaning Read the rest…

John Resig linked to an interesting new time picker UI that Maxime Haineault implemented as a jQuery plugin: He made a “two click” time picker. The first click is within the time field. This activates the display and allows the user to choose the time – all of which is done by moving the mouse Read the rest…

John Resig has been a busy guy posting today not once but thrice! They all interesting too. I really enjoyed the CSS3 Template Layout post that reminds us of the CSS 3 advanced layout that allows you to use ASCII to define it: < View plain text > css <style type="text/css"> body { Read the rest…

Santosh Rajan has created JX, which he calls a “Object Oriented Extension to jQuery”. With that description, I was expecting something like Dean’s Base library, but instead I found a layout manager for JavaScript with the following features: Only 8K minified True Objected Oriented jQuery Extension Complex layouts by nesting Containers Whole application configurable ‘Custom Read the rest…

Nater Kane wrote in to share his experience creating one of those “scrollable” components: I was having a bit of difficulty finding a jQuery plugin that not only provided scrolling behavior to a list of elements, but also used & then generated markup that could still be accessible, semantic & validate whether or not the Read the rest…

Sam Ruby has that way about him that sees things very clearly. He just took a peak at jQuery for the first time and was able to really put into words what I think jQuery enthusiasts like about the library: The notable thing about this is that despite all of the asynchronous events taking place, Read the rest…

Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin & Pastie.org are extremely popular because they’re easy to use and very effective in letting people compare notes on source code, especially in a support setting. Remy Sharp wanted to take the pastebin concept a step further, past the static Read the rest…

Gasman has created Antisocial, a very enjoyable demo of Canvas doing fake 3d and 2d along with that ZX Spectrum sound that you loved as a kid. Check out the tool to see where the magic happens, and make some music, Spectrum style! I feel like we have been light on showcases recently, so please Read the rest…

BigTarget.js is a new little jQuery plugin that makes bigger targets for users: Wrapping a single anchor around the whole content (title, thumbnail, summary) is a bad idea as it’s not standards compliant and renders the page invalid. So I turned to my good friend jQuery and threw together the following plugin using the ‘Learning Read the rest…

Just as jQuery kicks off its first jQuery conference adjunct with The Ajax Experience in Boston tomorrow, it gets an energy boost from some big double-barrel news: Microsoft and jQuery Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax Framework and they’re looking to Read the rest…

Remy Sharp gives us a blast form the past for the some Friday fun. First, he shows his Marquee plugin that gives you the marquee effect. Why would you do this when the marquee tag itself is widely adopted? Funnily enough, the marquee tag is pretty well supported amongst the browser, but the actual effect Read the rest…